July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Exact Holding NV, a Dutch software
provider, said it is in discussions with several parties about a
possible takeover of all of its outstanding shares.

The indicative prices range from 30 to 35 euros a share, it
said in an e-mailed statement today, valuing the Delft-based
company at as much as 850 million euros ($1.15 billion),
according to Bloomberg calculations.

“Exact has a good product within their cloud portfolio
that has a lot of potential, so I understand why there’s an
interest,” Marc Hesselink, analyst at ABN Amro said by phone.
He added that shareholders should be offered a premium to
compensate for the potential the cloud product has to offer,
meaning the price should come in at the upper side of the price
range or even a little above.

Exact’s shares closed 23 percent higher at 31.00 euros in
Amsterdam, the biggest jump since its 1999 public offering.

Exact announced on July 1 that it had agreed to sell its
Longview unit, a provider of performance- and tax-management
software, to Marlin Equity Partners. In November 2013, private
equity firm Advent International agreed to buy Dutch cloud-software maker Unit4 for about 1.15 billion euros.

Reuters earlier reported the company is in takeover talks
with private equity firms such as Apax and KKR & Co LP.